Elliot Worsell investigates the significant and overdue strides that women’s boxing has made and those it still needs to take
IT is perhaps no coincidence that in a time of uncertainty and desperation the boxers who have stepped up and made something of themselves in the past 12 months happen to be female. Long denied, eager for both their chance and approval, they have successfully let bygones be bygones, forgiven boxing for years of mistreatment, and helped resuscitate the sport back to life during the COVID-19 era. They have nurtured it. They have protected it. They have, in short, been the bigger person.